Kayee C

The Taking of All of Us 1

2019

Kayee is a fine art photographer born and raised in Hong Kong, currently living in France. She creates storytelling images by assembling her self-portraits to explore the dynamics of human relationships. Her works can be humorous, dramatic or melancholic staging of a variety of social interactions. Characters staged in her portraits range from complete strangers, friends, coworkers, family members to some forms of deity, trapped in familiar settings from famous paintings, mysterious surroundings or entirely surreal dimensions. They often struggle to maintain a perfect balance between the roles imposed by societal expectations and their desire to be themselves. Out of phase with the pursuit of an appearance of cohesion and the idealisation of extraversion, some cannot help but display marginal attitudes such as laziness, contempt, sadism or disillusionment. They seem to be constantly wondering who they are supposed to be in society while silently questioning the status quo. Her main body of work consists of an on-going series entitled “Visual Guide to Social Life.” Other series are specific spin-offs from this core theme.